Infrastructure Modernization Is Key to AI Success
The United Kingdom, the world’s third‑largest AI market at £72.3 bn in 2024, faces a bottleneck as legacy systems and poor data quality impede AI adoption across sectors from construction to healthcare. Infosys EVP Umashankar Lakshmipathy argues that modern, cloud‑based infrastructure is essential to handle the massive compute, storage and real‑time data‑processing demands of today’s AI workloads. He cites research showing only 48 % of AI projects reach production and many pilots stall, while cloud platforms can break data silos, accelerate development cycles and provide robust security and disaster‑recovery features. Recent private‑cloud investments, such as Blackstone’s £10 bn AI data centre in Blyth, underscore the shift toward sovereign cloud solutions for regulated industries.
Looking for an IT Management Tool to Simplify Your Life? Try Rippling IT for Free This Black Friday
Rippling is offering TechRadar readers a free Black‑Friday trial of its Rippling IT platform, an award‑winning tool that consolidates device management, app provisioning, user access and security policies in a single dashboard. The solution works across Windows, macOS and Linux, enabling...
Fake Facebook Business Pages Are Bombarding Users with Phishing Messages - so What Can Be Done?
Cybercriminals are exploiting Facebook Business Suite by sending phishing emails from the legitimate facebookmail.com domain, tricking SMBs and marketers into revealing credentials. Check Point Research recorded more than 40,000 fraudulent messages sent to roughly 5,000 entities, with some victims receiving...
ChatGPT 5.1 Could Launch Soon - 5 Features We’d Love to See From OpenAI’s Next Generation Chatbot
OpenAI is expected to roll out ChatGPT‑5.1 soon, after internal code traces labeled “gpt‑5‑1‑thinking” surfaced. The upgrade targets a smarter long‑term memory that selectively retains relevant context, richer creative multimodality that fuses text, images and audio, and tighter factual grounding...
Google Explains the Gemini Home Rollout 'Confusion' – and Reveals when to Expect a Full Launch
Google clarified that its Gemini AI will replace Google Assistant in the Google Home app, with the rollout beginning in the United States now and expanding to other markets by the first quarter of 2026. The upgrade is applied per...
AI Demand Is Leading to Major Data Center Expansions - but Do They Have the Power to Fully Operate?
AI-driven demand is spurring rapid data‑center expansion across EMEA, with live capacity up 12% and occupancy reaching 91% in Q3 2025. Yet power delivery lagged, totaling only 850 MW in 2025 – 11% below the previous year – and Gartner warns two‑fifths...
Software Budgets Are Being Wasted on Over-Engineered IT Tools
A Freshworks survey of more than 700 IT, CX, finance and operations professionals found that one‑fifth of software budgets – roughly $1 of every $5 spent – is wasted on over‑engineered tools that fail to deliver expected ROI. Over half...
5 Ways AI Is Supercharging DDoS Attacks
NETSCOUT reported a record 8 million DDoS attacks in the first half of 2025, with AI and automation increasingly powering the surge. AI‑driven DDoS‑for‑hire services now let even novices launch attacks by describing objectives to chatbots, automating attack scheduling, vector selection...
Google Will Peel Back a New Era of AI Images with Nano Banana 2
Google previewed Nano Banana 2, the next iteration of its AI image generator, inside the Gemini app. The model introduces a multi‑step workflow that plans an image, detects errors, and iteratively corrects them, delivering sharper angles, more accurate colors and editable text...
Apple's Rumored 'Health+' Subscription Tier with AI Features Is Doomed to Repeat Garmin's Failure
Apple is preparing to launch a paid Health+ tier that will bundle AI‑driven nutrition and medical advice into the Health app, accessible on iPhone and iPad rather than the Watch. The move mirrors Garmin’s recent Connect+ subscription, which sparked user...
Looking to Slice Your Cloud Bill? This New Service Lets You Rent Lenovo Workstations 50% Cheaper than Public Cloud Alternatives
IMSCAD has launched a Workstation‑as‑a‑Service that rents Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra machines, hosted in Equinix data centres, to users needing high‑performance graphics. The dedicated workstations feature up to a 6.0 GHz Gen 9 Intel CPU and Nvidia GPUs with up to 24 GB VRAM, and...
Forget the Robots – This Is the Reason AI Is the Best Thing to Happen Since Smartphone Cameras
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Google Photos via an "Ask" button, allowing users to query their personal photo libraries with natural language. In a test case, the author, with a 172,000‑image archive, typed "Picture of bay...
Don’t Trust Big Tech with Your Storage? Try This Proton Plan, Now on Sale for an Incredible 60% Off This...
Proton Drive, the Swiss privacy‑focused cloud service, is offering its 200 GB plan for $1.99 a month—a 60% Black Friday discount from the regular $4.99 price. The plan includes end‑to‑end encryption, automatic photo backup, secure file sharing and a 30‑day money‑back guarantee,...
Major AI Agents Are Being Spoofed - and It Could Put Your Site at Risk
Radware research reveals that malicious bots are spoofing popular AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, masquerading as legitimate agents that require POST permissions for transactional actions like booking or purchasing. The rise of genuine AI agents that can...
How Zero Trust Can Help Organizations Manage Mounting Agentic AI Security Risk
Agentic AI, which can plan and act autonomously, promises major productivity gains—Gartner forecasts 80% of routine customer‑service issues resolved without humans by 2029, cutting costs 30%—but also introduces new security risks such as indirect prompt‑injection, unchecked actions, and deep access...
I Used AI to Predict Prices of Amazon's 20 Most Popular SSDs for Black Friday and It Doesn't Look Good...
Google Gemini’s AI forecast for Amazon’s 20 best‑selling SSDs predicts only modest Black Friday 2025 price cuts, with most portable drives slipping by £10‑£20 and internal models dropping a similar amount. The SanDisk 2 TB Extreme Portable is expected to fall...
Most Companies Still Lag Behind on AI Targets—How Can They Catch Up?
AI adoption now touches 78% of firms, yet only 25% of initiatives meet expected ROI and just 18% exceed cost of capital. IBM’s study warns that many enterprises operate on ad‑hoc "hybrid‑by‑default" architectures, leading to paused pilots and limited value,...
Incogni Vs. Privacy Bee: Which Data Removal Service Should Keep Your Info Off the Internet?
Incogni, launched by VPN provider Surfshark in 2022, automates removal requests for over 420 data‑broker sites and custom requests for more than 2,000, offering a hands‑off experience, detailed request‑by‑request transparency, and four pricing tiers ranging from $16 to $30 per...
Google Issues Security Alert: Your VPN App Could Be Spyware in Disguise
Google’s November 2025 fraud and scams advisory warns that cyber‑criminals are distributing malicious applications disguised as legitimate VPN services, often via official app stores and even obtaining Google’s security badge. These fake VPNs can exfiltrate browsing history, credentials, financial data and...
Microsoft Is Working on a "New Class” Of AI Agents that Could Change Everything in Your Workforce
Microsoft unveiled its upcoming "Agentic Users" – AI agents that will have distinct identities, dedicated access to Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra directories, and the ability to attend meetings, edit documents, and communicate via email and chat autonomously. The feature,...
Major Privacy Laws - Including GDPR - Could Be Downgraded to Try and Boost AI Growth and Cut Red Tape
New European documents indicate a forthcoming "digital omnibus" package, slated for a 19 November 2025 proposal, that could relax key GDPR provisions to accelerate AI development. The draft would permit AI firms to train models on categories of data now protected—such as...
Meta Says It Wants to Invest $600 Billion in US Infrastructure and Jobs by 2028
Meta announced a $600 billion investment plan through 2028 to expand U.S. infrastructure, AI capabilities and job creation, centered on building additional AI data centers. The company says it has already generated over 30,000 skilled‑trade jobs and $20 billion in business for...
Got a Spare $50,000? Cooling a Single Nvidia Blackwell Ultra NVL72 Rack Costs as Much as a Tesla Model Y...
A Morgan Stanley report shows that liquid‑cooling hardware for Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra GB300 NVL72 rack costs $49,860—about the price of a Tesla Model Y. The next‑generation Vera Rubin NVL144 rack is projected to need $55,710 of cooling, a 17% increase, driven by higher‑capacity cold...
Better Object Removal, Improved Lighting and More - These "Sneaks" Could Be Adobe's Next Big Leap Forward
Adobe unveiled a slate of experimental AI‑driven tools during the MAX 2025 "Sneaks" showcase, including Project Light Touch for post‑capture lighting adjustments, Project Trace Erase that removes objects along with shadows and reflections, Project Frame Forward that propagates edits across...
What Is iCloud+? And Is It Worth the Money?
Apple’s iCloud+ is the premium, subscription‑based tier of its cloud service, offering expanded storage options ranging from 50 GB to 12 TB and a suite of privacy‑focused tools such as Private Relay, Hide My Email, custom email domains, HomeKit Secure Video, and...
Freepik CEO - No, AI Hasn't Killed the Stock Image Market
Freepik CEO Joaquín Cuenca told TechRadar Pro that, despite a decade of AI image and video tools, the company’s core stock‑photo business remains stable or even growing. Freepik has expanded its offering with AI generators, upscaling utilities and a cloud‑based...
Huawei Is Back in Europe - and It Wants to Help Take Your Small Business to the Next Level, with...
Huawei unveiled its eKit 4+10+N SME intelligence structure at the Connect 2025 event in Madrid, introducing a portfolio of 26 devices and ten pre‑configured solution packages aimed at European small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The offering bundles routers, switches, wireless and AI‑enhanced collaboration...
Interview: Freepik Boss Tells Us the Limits of AI, Why Storytelling Matters, and How Not to Tangle Yourself up in...
At Freepik’s Upscale event in Malaga, CEO Joaquín Cuenca outlined how the company is positioning AI as a collaborative tool for a new class of "creative engineers," supported by the Freepik Spaces platform that blends workflow, feedback and storytelling. He...
Could the AI Bubble Be Real? This Sage of the 2008 Market Crash and Central Character of The Big Short,...
Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management has taken large option positions on AI‑heavy stocks Nvidia and Palantir, with a notional exposure exceeding $1 billion, signaling he sees downside risk in the sector. The moves come amid growing debate over whether AI valuations...
VDI, SaaS, and DaaS Uncovered: What Businesses Need to Know
The article outlines four primary application delivery models—local applications, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), software‑as‑a‑service (SaaS), and desktop‑as‑a‑service (DaaS)—and explains their strengths, trade‑offs, and typical use cases. It highlights that most enterprises now employ a hybrid mix, with 85% using SaaS...
Perplexity Upgrades Comet to Multitask Across Your Tabs
Perplexity has upgraded its Comet Assistant AI to operate across multiple browser tabs, giving it a longer attention span and the ability to multitask on complex, multi‑step tasks such as simultaneous price comparisons or data extraction. The new version adds...
Why Sonos Can't Afford to Lose the Music Intelligence Race
Sonos’ 2024 app redesign caused widespread user frustration, prompting many customers to abandon the app and rely on native streaming services for speaker control. As the redesign stabilizes, the company now faces a new competitive threat from AI‑enhanced music assistants...
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is "Almost Ready" To Allow Texting when Behind the Wheel with Its Full Self-Driving System
Elon Musk told investors that Tesla is "almost comfortable" with letting drivers text while using its Full Self‑Driving (FSD) system and expects an unsupervised FSD rollout in the next month or two. The company has not outlined a clear path...
Malicious AI-Made Extension with Ransomware Capabilities Sneaks on to Microsoft's Official VS Code Marketplace - so Devs Beware
A malicious Visual Studio Code extension named “susvsex” was published on Microsoft’s official marketplace, openly advertising that it would zip, upload and encrypt files from a user’s public folder. Security researcher John Tuckner discovered the extension was ransomware‑like, used GitHub...
Design.com Logo Maker Review
TechRadar’s review finds Design.com to be an AI‑powered branding platform that offers a vast library of templates for logos, business cards, social media graphics, websites and more, but most of the content is locked behind a subscription. Free templates are...
The 5 Key Takeaways Creative Teams Need to Know About Freepik Spaces
Freepik has launched Spaces, a cloud‑based, node‑driven platform that lets creative teams build and refine AI‑generated assets directly in the browser, sidestepping the heavy hardware demands of tools like ComfyUI. The interface offers an auto‑mode and an Assistant node that...
Spiraling Costs of Downtime Tell Us It's Time for a New Engineering Mindset
Research from New Relic shows that high‑impact IT outages cost EMEA firms a median $102 million annually – roughly $2 million per hour, or $33,000 per minute – and 37% of respondents experience such events at least weekly. The report finds that...
The Unbearable Lightness of Getting Scammed: Future of Full Scale Cybersecurity
The article warns that cyber‑threats have moved from traditional malware to credential‑based intrusions and AI‑driven emotional scams, with 79% of detections now malware‑free. Scams targeting vulnerable users—especially older adults—have surged, evidenced by a 442% rise in vishing, $16 billion in U.S....
4 Ways to Boost Personal Productivity in a Distributed World
Atlassian’s Head of Product for Trello, Gaurav Kataria, outlines five ways personal productivity tools are evolving for hybrid and distributed workforces. He highlights the need to surface tasks across multiple apps, allow users to organize work in their preferred style,...
Fitbit Is Working on Hypertension and ‘Unusual Trend' Detection for Pixel Watch Owners – Here's How You Can Sign up...
Fitbit is expanding its AI‑powered personal coach app with two new experiments for Pixel Watch users: a Hypertension Study Lab and an Unusual Trend Detection tool, both run through the Fitbit Labs program. The hypertension trial, limited to US participants,...
Black Friday Could Be the Right Time to Buy a New Nvidia GPU as RTX 5000 Super Refreshes Are Rumored...
Nvidia is rumored to have scrapped its planned RTX 5000 Super refresh, including the RTX 5070 Super and RTX 5080 Super, because a shortage of 3 GB GDDR7 memory modules forces the company to allocate scarce chips to higher‑margin AI GPUs. The scarcity also drives up the...
NymVPN Boosts Its Censorship-Unlocking Power with New Features
NymVPN released version 2025.17 for Windows, Linux and iOS, adding QUIC protocol support and a new Stealth API Connect feature to make traffic harder to detect and block by deep‑packet‑inspection tools. The update also introduces state‑level gateway selection for U.S....
5 Ways to Make Gemini Your Everyday AI Art Teacher
TechRadar contributor Eric Hal Schwartz tests Google Gemini as a personal art tutor, outlining five practical ways the AI can help beginners improve drawing skills. Gemini provides detailed critiques, step‑by‑step technique lessons, style‑translation suggestions, visual storytelling guidance, and even translates...
The AI-Native Generation Is Coming, Are You Ready?
The UK government is rolling out a £187 million "TechFirst" initiative to embed AI education across the curriculum, from primary schools to university master’s programmes, aiming to produce a generation of AI‑native graduates. This talent pipeline will arrive with fluency in...
Acer's New Workstation Brings a Frankly Ridiculous 1 Petaflop AI Performance to Your Desktop - Get an Nvidia Grace Blackwell...
Acer unveiled the Veriton GN100 AI mini‑workstation, a 1.2 kg desktop that packs Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and claims up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The unit offers up to 128 GB of LPDDR5x unified memory, 4 TB of self‑encrypting NVMe storage, and...
Researchers Claim ChatGPT Has a Whole Host of Worrying Security Flaws - Here's What They Found
Security firm Tenable identified seven prompt‑injection vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑4o, collectively dubbed “HackedGPT,” ranging from indirect injection via trusted web sites and 0‑click search exploits to persistent memory injection that can embed malicious commands in saved chats. The researchers demonstrated...
New US Senate Bill Calls for Agencies and Companies to Be Forced to Report AI-Related Job Cuts
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley have introduced the AI‑Related Job Impacts Clarity Act, which would compel federal agencies, publicly traded firms and certain private companies to file quarterly reports with the Department of Labor detailing AI‑driven layoffs, new AI‑related...
Why Data Sovereignty Is Essential to Help Businesses Prepare for Impending AI Regulation
The EU AI Act, set to take effect in August 2026, imposes a risk‑based framework that requires companies using AI in the bloc to ensure transparency, verification and human oversight, with heavy penalties for non‑compliance. Data sovereignty—keeping data subject to the...
Your Ring Camera Is About to Get Smarter with Single Event Alert – and It Should Mean Fewer Notifications
Ring announced an AI‑powered Single Event Alert that bundles multiple motion notifications from the same occurrence into a single push, aiming to curb the “notification fatigue” many users experience. The feature can recognize repeated activity—such as a child playing or...
Letterboxd Is Down – Here's Everything We Know About the Movie App's Outage
Letterboxd experienced a global outage beginning around 7:20 am ET on 6 Nov 2025, rendering both its app and website inaccessible and prompting over 600 user reports on Downdetector. The disruption coincided with the company’s annual 20%‑off Pro/Patron subscription sale running through 7 Nov,...
